The league is already tilted to the offense significantly. We don’t need and many don’t want another rule in favor of focusing on offense. The current rules are a perfect balance of offense and defense, it also has elements of sudden death and it removes the cheapness of winning the toss and getting to just within field goal range and kicking to win.

The “each team gets a possession” isn’t sudden death. We will have just played 60 minutes of the most grueling, most injury riddled sport to get to a non sudden death overtime. What was the point of the prior 60 minutes? They’ll have a game or games that go to triple or quadruple overtime or worse and some known commodity will suffer serious injury and we’ll be back rather quickly to debating that we need sudden death.

I mean good grief. You are at home in the AFC championship in OT. Just stop them from getting the TD. Make them settle for a FG. If you can’t do that with so much on the line, you got what you deserved and there’s nothing in the rules that screwed you or was unfair. Play some D.

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